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Robert F. Guild...
...never played pro ball. Until six months ago he was a labor-relations expert on management's side. When several of his baseball-playing friends told him their troubles, he advised them, half kidding: "Form a union." Before Bob Murphy knew it, he had formed the American Baseball Guild. Some of the boys spread the word at spring-training camps. One of their toughest jobs was selling ballplayers the idea of paying 50?-a-week dues...
...Herald reporter (at $34.79 a week, the Newspaper Guild scale for beginners), Phoebe Hearst gets up early, drives to work (at 7:30 a.m.) in her Buick convertible coupe, gets half an hour for lunch, tries hard to please everybody. Her grandfather said he could fix it with the city editor to give her easier hours, but she said no. "I'm learning a different side of life," said the fledgling Hearstling last week, "and meeting some strange people-interesting in their own little...
...newsroom, in habitual deference to a rule of the Munsey era, long since repealed. He and City Editor Edmond Bartnett, after 25 years, still address each other as "Mr." Sun employes, who own part of the paper's stock, have their own little union instead of a Newspaper Guild unit...
...well beside works of greater fame. If "Rodeo" is not one of the most famous ballets presented in recent years by any ballet company, what is it? Does J.A.L. realize that "Rodeo" by Agnes de Mille was the force behind ballet in all musical comedies? When the Theater Guild saw the Ballet Russe's production, they hired de Mille to do the choreography for "Oklahoma!" and even J.A.L. surely doesn't need diagrams drawn from here...